Cartier-Bresson, Henri
French (1908-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer
PUBLISHED TITLE: Exposing a stool pigeon for the Gestapo in a displaced persons camp

1945 / printed later
gelatin silver print
17.1 x 25.4 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange
GEH NEG: 3057
73:0057:0002

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. --The Decisive Moment: Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson.-- New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. pl. 34.//
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. --Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson.-- New York: Grossman Publishers, 1963. pl. 36.//
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. --The World of Henry Cartier-Bresson.-- New York: The Viking Press, 1968. pl. 81.//
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. --Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. pl. 68.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 632.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 28 - September 17, 1989. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer, 1945." (rubberstamp) "Henri Cartier-Bresson Mention obligatoire Prière de reproduire cotte photo intégralement sans en modifier le cadrage." "Magnum distribution" (in pencil) "Sauv" "34"

copyright, Henri Cartier-Bresson

NOTES: Cataloged 4/84, DZ, updated 5/88. Alternate title from --Photographs by Cartier-Bresson--. "Dessau, Germany, 1945. In a camp of displaced persons waiting for repatriation, a Gestapo informer who had pretended to be a refugee is discovered and exposed by a camp inmate whose face is illuminated by the strong, sharp light of rage." --The Decisive Moment--.

SUBJECTS:
people, gathering
event, political